Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 03:09:56 -0500
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On 5/14/24 12:45 AM, The Doctor wrote:
> In article <v1usi3$76b$2@dont-email.me>, Sharx335  <sharx35@telus.net> wrote:
>> On 2024-05-13 11:05 p.m., John Larkin wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 May 2024 21:39:19 -0600, Sharx335 <sharx35@telus.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2024-05-13 6:43 p.m., NefeshBarYochai wrote:
>>>>> In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
>>>>> Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
>>>>> in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
>>>>> relations battle.
>>>>>
>>>>> “Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
>>>>> down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
>>>>> said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
>>>>> postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
>>>>> to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
>>>>> broadcasts.”
>>>>>
>>>>> The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
>>>>> allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
>>>>> ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
>>>>> purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
>>>>> failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
>>>>> pro-Palestinian content.
>>>>>
>>>>> Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
>>>>> was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
>>>>> to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
>>>>> Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
>>>>> children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
>>>>>
>>>>> “Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
>>>>> impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
>>>>> the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
>>>>> narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
>>>>> context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
>>>>> dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
>>>>> challenging effect on the narrative.”
>>>>>
>>>>> A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
>>>>> spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
>>>>> legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
>>>>> will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
>>>>> said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
>>>> about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
>>>
>>> It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our
>>> youth. It's working.
>>>
>>
>> As demonstrated by all those pro-terrorist illegal campus occupations.
> 
> Antifa backed of course!


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